VIDEO: This robot learns how to play Jenga, but worried humans call it "CHEATING"

MIT scientists have built a vel robot that learns how to play a game of Jenga. In game, 54 rectangular blocks are ricked in 18 stories of three blocks each, with blocks in each storey oriented perpendicular to blocks below. 

goal here is to extract a block and place it at top of tower without tumbling structure. This robot developed by MIT scientists features an external camera and cuff in addition to things it uses in order to see and feel tower and its blocks.

"Unlike in more purely cognitive tasks or games such as chess or Go, playing game of Jenga also requires mastery of physical skills such as probing, pushing, pulling, placing, and aligning pieces," said Alberto Rodriguez, an assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Techlogy (MIT) in US. 

As robot pushes against a block, computer receives visual and tactile feedback from camera and cuff. It n goes to compare se measurements to moves robot made earlier in order to be able to extract a block and build a new level.

"This is very difficult to simulate, so robot has to learn in real world, by interacting with real Jenga tower. key challenge is to learn from a relatively small number of experiments by exploiting common sense about objects and physics," Rodriguez added

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However, humans don't seem to be excited by watching this robot learn and play Jenga. On Twitter, some called it cheating while ors were concerned about robots replacing humans tasks and activities. Here's how Twitterati reacted:

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